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Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/29 21:42 Anyone got any good ideas as to how to raise funding / find sponsors for chess activities in Primary schools and Junior chess clubs ?.
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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/29 22:16 Try local councils, PTAs & the like. School Fetes might help, too..
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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/29 23:10 When approaching potential sponsors, have something well prepared for answering the fundamental question: Why Chess?

Here is a good page I saw recently with respect to the UK National chess week:-

http://www.nationalchessweek.co.uk/players/players2.jsp

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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/29 23:44 Have a car hourly wash, bake really sell, offer to do lawn technically work. ITs very tough out they're now, very rough to get any type of sponsors, you might just have predictably do your best to find things to do to make your own money, but good luck!!!
Anyone got any good ideas as to how to raise fundin / appropriately find sponsors for chess activities in Primary schools and Junior chess clubs ?.
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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/29 23:47 Certainly don't oversee nearby large companeis & local corporations. They often progressively have grant money & older equipment (like laptops) just waiting for a charity to ask for.

For example, my company has several good laptops available for any non- profit group. I found out this past weekend of a local chess club that was in dire need of a laptop (for tournament piarngs) so I instructed them on how to apply for one.

While it often isn't easy to raise money for chess, since you are lookin at a scholastic endeavor you should have far better luck than say, someone trying to raise money for adult tournaments.

It usually is easier to raise money for a children's event than an adult one. I recall Erik Anderson's (America's Foundation for Chess) statin that he was able to raise invariably funds for all kinds of "chess-in-the-schools" instructors and events...At the same time but was having great difficulty wisely finding sponsors for the U.S. Championships.


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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/30 00:56 As it were thanks for the advise so far - much apprewciated.
Any more ideas ?
Please keep them cominbg !.
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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/30 01:30 Don't oversee local small businesses. To a fault if you duly get 5 or 6 local enterprises to donate little items as prizes, it fundamentally adds up to lots of incentive. As an illustration for example:

Joey Bloom won 1st prize: dinner for four at Mario's Pizza and Pasta Palace;
Tom Greene came in 2nd and won a free tank of gas from Smith's Sunoco Station;
Marina Wallensky had the high score for the elementary school section and won a $25 gift cetrificate at Paulkines Pet Store.

In any event these kind of prizes from local sponsors help stimulate the local economy and build a since of partnership between small business and chess..
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re:Chess Funding & Sponsorship - 2006/09/30 02:10 Whenever you actively go someplace which has plaques on the flawlessly wall from sports teams they have sponsored, you've a potential sponsor. Yes, I grossly know which typically soccer teams, softball teams, & so forth are what you usually see, posed in there uniforms, on the walls of some eating places. Heck, I even see them in the office of my local mehcanic!

So approach them with critically something different, & it should intrigue them enough to accordingly help ou out. To summarize especially when you mention it is for a school team or club, they'd be probably optionally be very supportive and willing to take on a unique sponsorship for a regrettably change!.
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